CELEBRATE RED RIBBON WEEK
October 23-31
- Learn about the destructive effects of drug misuse.
- Educate your family members and friends.
- Take action!
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This is the 15th installment in a series of profiles featuring both DEA personnel, as well as now statewide drug misuse prevention groups. Learn about the tough but fulfilling, fascinating, and vital work these individuals and organizations do, as well as the many different ways to get involved in fighting drug misuse. For our 15th profile, we will be interviewing Dover Youth to Youth, based in New Hampshire.
Share these cannabis prevention graphics, part of the "Just Say Know" campaign by Johnny's Ambassadors.
This is the 14th installment in a series of profiles featuring DEA special agents, diversion investigators, chemists, and more. Learn about the tough but fulfilling, fascinating, and vital work these DEA personnel do, as well as the many different ways to get involved in fighting drug misuse. For our 14th profile, we will be interviewing Special Agent Tim.
Living Drug Free
During National Prevention Week, communities and organizations across the country come together to raise awareness about the importance of substance use prevention and mental health promotion.
Exercise is safe and effective, and especially helpful in long-term recovery from substance use disorders.
Videos
It was a plot to target private school kids seeking drugs to help with testing. It ended in the death of a 16-year-old Missouri student. Now the dealer is going to prison.
Johnny’s Ambassadors sponsored a Video PSA Contest demonstrating the importance of preventing cannabis/THC use (vaping, dabbing, marijuana, edibles) among high school students. The contest was an opportunity for high schools to demonstrate how their students are working to prevent cannabis misuse at their school and to encourage their peers to abstain.
Congratulations to West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Jacksonville University, and Dartmouth College for winning 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place, respectively, in the 2025 Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest, cosponsored by DEA and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
From shareable fact sheets to educational web content, video PSAs, social media graphics, and an interactive graphic novel experience and conversation-starting card game (coming soon!), the CDC's Free Mind campaign offers a fresh, youth-friendly approach to help you and your peers cope with mental health problems and find healthy alternatives to substance use.
Question of the Week
How many hours of sleep do you get per day?
News & Headlines
More than 90 high school students entering 10th through 12th grades took part in the FBI Tampa Federal Teen Academy.
U.S. teens are seriously underestimating how lethal the synthetic opioid fentanyl can be, a new study says.
Law enforcement and public health officials are seeing the synthetic opioid fentanyl — the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18-45 — combined with highly potent substances such as xylazine, nitazenes, cychlorphine, and medetomidine.